republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-100.md

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Bill	Voir dire examination of persons called as jurors; criminal case.	Voir dire examination of persons called as jurors; criminal case. Allows the court and counsel for either party in a criminal case to (i) ask potential jurors any relevant question to ascertain whether the juror can sit impartially in either the guilt or sentencing phase of the case and (ii) inform any potential juror as to the potential range of punishments to ascertain if the person or juror can sit impartially in the sentencing phase of the case. This bill is identical to SB 325.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 100	Virginia HB 100 (2020)	bill		enacted	Joseph C. Lindsey	5	31	7	2019-12-12	2020-03-04	openstates	ocd-bill/853839b7-72a1-4715-afb9-ee40624f79cd	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB100	2bb296d6517b71636b6103e3a712d06c2834cebb5055dd907adb40a8815c43d7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 100 (2020) — Voir dire examination of persons called as jurors; criminal case.

Voir dire examination of persons called as jurors; criminal case. Allows the court and counsel for either party in a criminal case to (i) ask potential jurors any relevant question to ascertain whether the juror can sit impartially in either the guilt or sentencing phase of the case and (ii) inform any potential juror as to the potential range of punishments to ascertain if the person or juror can sit impartially in the sentencing phase of the case. This bill is identical to SB 325.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0157) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB100ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB100H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB100H1 (committee substitute) — source
5. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB100S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 1-N) — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (16-Y 3-N) — 16–3 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (72-Y 27-N) — 71–27 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Judiciary with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (64-Y 36-N) — 63–36 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Joseph C. Lindsey — primary (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2019-12-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101375D introduction
• 2019-12-12 Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice referral-committee
• 2020-01-17 Assigned Courts sub: Criminal referral-committee
• 2020-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 1-N)
• 2020-01-27 Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (16-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-27 Committee substitute printed 20106547D-H1 substitution
• 2020-01-29 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-01-30 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-01-30 Committee substitute agreed to 20106547D-H1
• 2020-01-30 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB100H1
• 2020-01-31 Read third time and passed House (72-Y 27-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-01-31 VOTE: Passage (72-Y 27-N)
• 2020-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-03 Referred to Committee on the Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-02-12 Reported from Judiciary with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-12 Committee substitute printed 20108209D-S1 substitution
• 2020-02-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-17 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-17 Committee substitute agreed to 20108209D-S1
• 2020-02-17 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB100S1
• 2020-02-17 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-19 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-19 Senate substitute agreed to by House 20108209D-S1 (64-Y 36-N)
• 2020-02-19 VOTE: Adoption (64-Y 36-N)
• 2020-02-21 Enrolled
• 2020-02-21 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-24 Signed by President
• 2020-02-26 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2020
• 2020-02-26 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 4, 2020
• 2020-03-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 157 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/853839b7-72a1-4715-afb9-ee40624f79cd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).